"Imma" is not a misspelling; it's a transcription of the way it's pronounced, like "gonna" or "wanna".

I thing that's fairly generous. I mean it misses the entire middle word and then ends up sounding like something else very common. The first time my daughter played the Gosh-awful song "Imma be" in my presence I really heard "I'm a bee" for the first bit until they started including other lyrics. The *first* time I heard it was Kanye and his infamous awards interruption and I honestly thought that he was just accidentally missing a whole word out of his sentence. Given how clearly he was on *something* I just kept on thinking that until I heard it somewhere else.

I mean, if you say "gunna" with a broad enough Australian accent it sounds like "gunner", but I don't think those are two really easily confused words. I understand language evolves, and I understand urban groups often want their own private language, I just don't have to be happy about it

"Imma" is not a misspelling; it's a transcription of the way it's pronounced, like "gonna" or "wanna".

I thing that's fairly generous. I mean it misses the entire middle word and then ends up sounding like something else very common. The first time my daughter played the Gosh-awful song "Imma be" in my presence I really heard "I'm a bee" for the first bit until they started including other lyrics. The *first* time I heard it was Kanye and his infamous awards interruption and I honestly thought that he was just accidentally missing a whole word out of his sentence. Given how clearly he was on *something* I just kept on thinking that until I heard it somewhere else.

I mean, if you say "gunna" with a broad enough Australian accent it sounds like "gunner", but I don't think those are two really easily confused words. I understand language evolves, and I understand urban groups often want their own private language, I just don't have to be happy about it

"Imma" is not a misspelling; it's a transcription of the way it's pronounced, like "gonna" or "wanna".

I thing that's fairly generous. I mean it misses the entire middle word and then ends up sounding like something else very common. The first time my daughter played the Gosh-awful song "Imma be" in my presence I really heard "I'm a bee" for the first bit until they started including other lyrics. The *first* time I heard it was Kanye and his infamous awards interruption and I honestly thought that he was just accidentally missing a whole word out of his sentence. Given how clearly he was on *something* I just kept on thinking that until I heard it somewhere else.

I mean, if you say "gunna" with a broad enough Australian accent it sounds like "gunner", but I don't think those are two really easily confused words. I understand language evolves, and I understand urban groups often want their own private language, I just don't have to be happy about it

Oh, I wasn't disagreeing with the theory, I was just having my little middle-aged tantrum because I don't like it I mean, at least YOLO, lol, cray-cray etc aren't already other word(s) that mean something else entirely.

"Imma" is not a misspelling; it's a transcription of the way it's pronounced, like "gonna" or "wanna".

I thing that's fairly generous. I mean it misses the entire middle word and then ends up sounding like something else very common. The first time my daughter played the Gosh-awful song "Imma be" in my presence I really heard "I'm a bee" for the first bit until they started including other lyrics. The *first* time I heard it was Kanye and his infamous awards interruption and I honestly thought that he was just accidentally missing a whole word out of his sentence. Given how clearly he was on *something* I just kept on thinking that until I heard it somewhere else.

I mean, if you say "gunna" with a broad enough Australian accent it sounds like "gunner", but I don't think those are two really easily confused words. I understand language evolves, and I understand urban groups often want their own private language, I just don't have to be happy about it

Oh, I wasn't disagreeing with the theory, I was just having my little middle-aged tantrum because I don't like it I mean, at least YOLO, lol, cray-cray etc aren't already other word(s) that mean something else entirely.

It's very sloppy pronunciation, for sure. I'm trying to imagine someone who is learning English as a second language and has to decipher "Imma" as "I'm going to/gonna" and "Ahnunno" as "I don't know."

I recall in the excellent series "The Story of English" a discussion of how pronunciation and word usage change in a given population over time. So, the development of "Imma" in place of "I am going to," or even "I'm gonna" is a natural phenomenon. It's one reason why we now have so many different languages.

The problem with a worldwide language such as English, of course, is that at some point, different forms of "English" may develop until they become mutually unintelligible.There are some interesting sociopolitical issues about whether those forms should be considered variants from "standard" English, or treated as different languages.

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My cousin's memoir of love and loneliness while raising a child with multiple disabilities will be out on Amazon soon! Know the Night, by Maria Mutch, has been called "full of hope, light, and companionship for surviving the small hours of the night."

I know that this has been around for awhile, but I despise the modern use of the word "real" and "fake." Whenever I hear, "She's so fake! She only thinks about clothes and boys!" I automatically think, "But boys and clothes aren't made up, are they?"

Not to mention the fact that I keep hearing people use "real" to excuse their rude/bratty/nasty behavior. I think kindness is just as real.

I'm getting tired of seeing people use "littles" to mean children. I just saw a FB update "takin the littles to the park"

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In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. ~Thomas Szasz